Triballi

The Triballi were a Thracian tribe which inhabited southern Serbia and western Bulgaria. The Triballi received influences from the Celts, Scythians, and Illyrians, and, in 424 BC, they defeated the Odrysae before being driven east by the Autariatae. In 376 BC, they besieged the Athenians at Chabrias before reconciling, and the Triballi also defeated and wounded King Philip II of Macedon in 339 BC, although they were later subdued by the Macedonians under Alexander the Great from 335 to 334 BC. In 279 BC, the invading Scordisci drove the Triballi further to the east, and they caused trouble for the Roman governors of Macedonia until 84 BC, when they were conquered. The Triballi would later become the Serbs.